In fact, for Office 365 subscribers, Office 2019 is little more than a declaration, a verbal if not virtual sign that names the next iteration. Next September makes sense as Office 2019's launch window because the perpetual-license version will be built from code already released as Office 365 ProPlus. (Yes, Microsoft's use of the same name for two quite different things yields a big, steaming pot of confusion. 22, 2015, Microsoft started selling the one-time-purchased "perpetual" licensed version, also called Office 2016. September has another thing going for it, since it was that month in 2015 when Microsoft released Office 2016 to Office 365 customers, offering the new applications as alternatives to the Office 2013 applications. (Yes, yes, yes, 1802 signifies February 2018, but Microsoft released the code that became Office 2019 in March. Another Semi-Annual Channel (Targeted) release, it will probably be identified as 1802 using Microsoft's yymm format. That's the delivery date for 2018's second feature upgrade. We think the date to remember is next year's 9/11. Office 2019 is supposed to ship in the "second half of 2018," according to Microsoft. (Like Windows 10, the first four months or so of each feature upgrade of Office 365 ProPlus is a test-and-fix period it's labeled with the awkward "Semi-Annual Channel (Targeted)" because those releases "are intended to provide enterprises time to pilot and to validate their line-of-business applications, add-ins, and macros with Office 365 ProPlus before Semi-Annual Channel is released.")īy issuing that Semi-Annual Channel (Targeted) build as the preview for Office 2019, Microsoft expands the testing to customers who don't subscribe to Office 365, but gets to offer code that has gone through a partial shakedown outside of the company's confines. In Microsoft's vernacular, "Semi-Annual Channel" represents more stable code that has been tested by some customers between March 13 and July 10, with Microsoft fixing any found bugs. Then on July 10, 2018, that same upgrade will be issued to the Semi-Annual Channel, the main distribution channel. (ProPlus is the suite that provides rights to the locally installed applications, including Excel, Outlook and Word, for 365 subscribers.)īecause the perpetual licensed version of Office 2019 will be built from code already released as Office 365 ProPlus, it's most likely that Microsoft will use the March 2018 feature upgrade for Office 365 ProPlus subscribers as the basis for Office 2019.Īccording to Microsoft's Office 365 ProPlus release calendar, the March 2018 feature upgrade will ship March 13, 2018. That's the scheduled date for the release of what will be coded as the "Semi-Annual Channel" of Office 365 ProPlus. Six weeks ago, Microsoft said, "Previews of the new products will start shipping mid-year 2018."Ĭomputerworld's best guess for the beta? July 10, 2018.
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